Whicker: Keith Thurman’s trainer Dan Birmingham has pulled surprises before

LAS VEGAS — Fourteen years ago, Winky Wright gave former middleweight champ Felix Trinidad 12 rounds of post-graduate tutoring.
Wright won all but two rounds on the judges’ three cards. The lesson was clear: Trinidad should retire, which he did.
“We knew how good Trinidad could be if he set himself,” Wright said Thursday. “So we were going to jab him and keep off-balance so he couldn’t throw anything solid.”
The other part of the “we” is here